The H. Wiley Hitchcock Institute for Studies in American Music

A page out of the 21st chapter of Judith Tick's biography of Ella Fitzgerald titled "It's Quite a Problem Trying to Please Everyone." Who here has heard of ***Barbara Gardner***? Come to the Grad Center this Thursday to ask Prof. Tick all your burning questions about feminist archival research in jazz. All are invited. Registration link in the comments.

We all know Jim Crow but have you heard of Jane Crow? Come to The Graduate Center Music Program, CUNY this Thursday to hear Judith Tick on her biography of Ella Fitzgerald. Registration link is below.

"Becoming Ella Fitzgerald": Listening Party & Conversation with Judith Tick A celebration of the publication of "Becoming Ella Fitzgerald: The Jazz Singer Who Transformed American Song" with author Judith Tick.

Join us as we celebrate the publication of Judith Tick’s “Becoming Ella Fitzgerald: The Singer Who Transformed American Song.” A listening party with playlist curated by Tick will be followed by a presentation and Q&A with the author.
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/becoming-ella-fitzgerald-listening-party-conversation-with-judith-tick-tickets-883446832257

Thank you, NYC, for the overwhelming response! We're thrilled to announce that tonight's Afro-Venezuelan Drumming Diaspora event is sold out! For those who've registered, prepare to be transported into the heart of Afro-Venezuelan rhythms. If you missed out, stay tuned for future events and don't forget to register early next time.🥁

Afro-Venezuelan Drumming Diaspora in NYC Tambor y Caña & Escuela de Tambores Afrovenezolanos y Percusión Afrolatina (E.T.A.P.A.)

Please Join us for a 1-hour conversation and performance with Afro-Venezuelan drumming event featuring Tambor y Caña & Escuela de Tambores Afrovenezolanos y Percusión Afrolatina!

Date: November 30th, 2023
Time: 7 pm
Place: Lehman College

Afro-Venezuelan Drumming Diaspora in NYC Tambor y Caña & Escuela de Tambores Afrovenezolanos y Percusión Afrolatina (E.T.A.P.A.)

An upcoming event featuring a new book by Brooklyn College faculty Ben Lerner.

When: Thursday, October 26th @ 2:15pm
Where: Room 411, BC Library

🎼 Spotlight on Jennifer Roderer for the H. Wiley Hitchcock Centennial Concert on Sept 28! From the Met Opera to Teatro Colón, mezzo-soprano Jennifer Roderer brings her extensive opera background to A Rat's Mass / Procession In Shout, Adrienne Kennedy & Cecil Taylor's 1976 opera which will be featured in the second part of the program.

👉 Learn more about Jennifer: https://www.jenniferroderer.com/

🎟️ Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-centennial-birthday-celebration-tickets-709573351997?aff=oddtdtcreator

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Jennifer Roderer Welcome to the website of Jennifer Roderer, mezzo-soprano!

📣 As we countdown to the H. Wiley Hitchcock Centennial Birthday Party & Concert on Sept 28, we're thrilled to spotlight our performers! First up: Joshua Banbury 🌟 A classically trained jazz singer and opera librettist who has performed with organizations like The Apollo Theatre and The New York Philharmonic. He'll take on the role of Blake in Adrienne Kennedy & Cecil Taylor's 1976 opera, originally played by Andy Bey—a pivotal figure in Joshua's work. 🎤

Learn more about Joshua 👉 https://www.joshuabanbury.com/

🎟 Register for the event 👉 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-centennial-birthday-celebration-tickets-709573351997?aff=oddtdtcreator

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Joshua Banbury Joshua Banbury is a classically trained jazz singer and opera librettist with Texas roots. At twenty-eight, his collaborations include solo performances with many of the most respected musical organizations in the country, including The Apollo Theatre (Nov 4th, 2023), The Phillips Collection, The Ne...

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Matthew Shipp Piano Solo - April 7, 2023, 7:30-9:30 PM

Elebash Recital Hall
Graduate Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Avenue, NY

Matthew Shipp brings his exceptional aristry to the Elebash Recital Hall at the Graduate Center, CUNY in midtown Manhattan. In his decades long career as a universally acclaimed jazz innovator, Shipp has been leader, co-leader, the ultimate sideman, and producer on over one hundred releases, and has garnered countless accolades from within the music industry and devotees worldwide. He has been a member of numerous ground breaking innovative jazz ensembles: the David S. Ware's Quartet, Roscoe Mitchell's Note Factory and his own Matthew Shipp Quartet. An artist whose musical style cannot be singularly categorized, his music has been described as, "a gateway to higher improvisation that is practically without parallel," "simultaneously shocking and beautiful," and "unleashed with the kind of power imparted to them by his supple fingers... becom[ing] something living and breathing, dancers indeed."

The event is free and open to the public. Register at http://ow.ly/ep0x50Nko3L.

Matthew Shipp Piano Solo Matthew Shipp Piano Solo

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NYC Five Borough Tour - March 2-12, 2023

"Viajes y Raíces," or "Journeys and Origins," is an intimate reflection on memory, place, and identity. The performance features the music of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Tania León alongside formidable composers in León’s creative community: inti figgis-vizueta and Keyla Orozco. Paying homage to a wide variety of traditions, the concert program includes a series of string quartets, illuminating how each composer reflects on their own origins and explorations through their distinct musical language.

NYC Five Borough Tour • Orchestra of St. Luke's Paying homage to a wide variety of traditions, the performance features the music of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Tania León alongside formidable composers in León’s creative community: inti figgis-vizueta and Keyla Orozco.

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December 12, 4 PM
118 Roosevelt Extension

Alan Courtis is a musician and sound artist best known as one of the founders of the legendary Argentinian group Reynols. He will be giving an artist talk presented by the Sonic Arts Student Union (SASU) at Brooklyn College. The presentation will take place Dec. 12 at 4pm in 118 Roosevelt Extension.

Alan Courtis (Buenos Aires, 1972) has been working in the field of sound-art, electro-acoustic music, drone, noise, improvisation and composition. He is a founding member of the group Reynols. He holds a degree in Communication Sciences from the University of Buenos Aires. His written music has been played by ensembles from the UK, Thailand, Switzerland, Netherlands, Mexico, Canada, USA and Argentina. He was commissioned by Phoenix Basel Ensemble, Český Rozhlas and was artist in residence at EMS, GRM, Cafe Oto & USF. He has more than 500 releases on labels like Mego, P.S.F., Pogus, RRR, etc. His music has been broadcasted at radios like: BBC (UK), WFMU (USA), SBS (Australia), Resonance-FM (UK), CJSF (Canada), WDR (Germany), Sveriges Radio (Sweden), Radio France, NRK (Norway), RTVE (Spain), WNUR (USA), Radio Nacional (Argentina). He has toured extensively in Japan, China, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Europe, USA, Australia, NZ & Latin America and has collaborated with musicians such as: Pauline Oliveros, Phill Niblock, David Toop, Merzbow, Lee Ranaldo, Jim O’Rourke, L.A.F.M.S., Makoto Kawabata, Tetsuo Furudate, Nihilist Spasm Band, Eddie Prevost and L'autopsie a révélé que la mort était due à l'autopsie. Courtis has composed music for films and has been coordinating seminars and workshops in Universities and Art institutions from Norway, Iceland, Sweden, Finland, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, England, Ireland, Estonia, Argentina, Mexico, Brazil, Peru, Chile, United States, Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Thailand, China & Japan.

UbuWeb Sound - Alan Courtis

Tomorrow is "Women, Sound, Transformation: Claudia Acuña and Angela Piva on Survival and Success in the Music Industry" from 11 AM-12:15 PM. The Brooklyn College community is encouraged to join us on campus at the Leonard and Claire Tow Performing Arts Center in Room 250, but you may also join us virtually via our Facebook Live event. To register for free, visit: http://tinyurl.com/women-sound-transformation

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Chia's Dance Party

8 Oct 2022, 10pm-midnight
Barbès: 376 9th St, Brooklyn, NY 11215

Martin Vejarano, (La Cumbiamba, Cumbia River Band) is reviving his Chia's Dance Party - a project based on the sounds of traditional Colombian marching bands, but with enough of urban bastardization and personal idiosyncrasies to please a squadron of ethnomusicologists. The music is fun, driven and adventurous. It's very deeply rooted in Colombian music but not quaint, folkloric or exotic in anyway.

(Not affiliated with HISAM)

CHIA'S DANCE PARTY CHIA'S DANCE PARTYMartin Vejarano, (La Cumbiamba, Cumbia River Band) is reviving his Chia's Dance Party - a project based on the sounds of traditional Colombian marching bands, but with enough of urban bastardization and personal idiosyncrasies to please a squadron of ethnomusicologists. The music i...

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(Currently at full capacity)
Flowin': Breakthroughs in Black Feminist Jazz & Literary Studies
A Conference in Celebration on Farah Jasmine Griffin

Yale University
23-24 September 2022

(Not affiliated with HISAM)
http://ow.ly/YGME50KMTwe

HISAM Happenings: American Music in NYC

September 15-17 2022, 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
St. Paul's Chapel, Free Ticketed Event

Trinity Church Wall Street presents New York’s first fully staged performances of Craig Hella Johnson’s epic fusion oratorio, “Considering Matthew Shepard.” Johnson created the oratorio as “a space for reflection, consideration, and unity around [Shepard’s] life and legacy.”

Craig Hella Johnson: Considering Matthew Shepard Trinity proudly presents New York’s first fully staged performances of Craig Hella Johnson’s epic fusion oratorio, Considering Matthew Shepard. Johnson created the oratorio as “a space for reflection, consideration, and unity around [Shepard’s] life and legacy."

HISAM Happenings: American Music in NYC

Wednesday September 14, 7 PM
Claire Tow Theater, Whitman Hall, Free

Professor Ronnie Burrage will conduct the Conservatory Jazz Ensemble and his star-studded ensemble, the Holographic Principle, in a concert of his compositions, including "God's Only Black Man," featuring the Brooklyn College Symphonic Choir under the direction of Professor Malcolm Merriweather.

The stellar cast of musicians includes Alain Bradette, Nimrod Speaks, Alex Collins, Greg Osby, Eric Person, Craig Harris, Duane Eubanks, Eddie Allen, Tina Wilcox, and Ben Sutin.

Please remember that you must provide proof of vaccination to enter the theater.

HISAM is delighted to announce the Fall 2021 issue of American Music Review is online and available to download as a PDF!

American Music Review, Vol. LI, Issue 1, Fall 2021 Brooklyn College is an integral part of the civic, urban, and artistic energy of New York and uses the entire city as a living classroom that broadens our students' understanding of the world around them.

Tonight at 7!! Join us for “Archival Conversations” with Isaac Jean-François—and more beginning tomorrow at 10 AM. PLUS: new and exciting American Music Review content dedicated to Tania León!

For details, click on the Brooklyn College link!! http://www.Brooklyn.CUNY.edu/web/academics/centers/Hitchcock/events.php

Events Brooklyn College is an integral part of the civic, urban, and artistic energy of New York and uses the entire city as a living classroom that broadens our students' understanding of the world around them.

Join us on Thursday and Friday! Register for free at tinyurl.com/tanialeoncanyouimagine
Details below!

The H. Wiley Hitchcock Institute for Studies in American Music updated their website address.

CAN YOU IMAGINE? A Celebration of Tania León
April 14th & 15th

This virtual symposium is less than 2 weeks away!

Register for FREE
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/can-you-imagine-a-celebration-of-tania-leon-april-14th-15th-tickets-277631241517

[photo by Gail Hadani]

ONE MONTH AWAY: April 14th & 15th
CAN YOU IMAGINE? A Celebration of Tania León

Check out the link in bio to register for this ONLINE EVENT - it’s FREE!

[ photo: Cassatt Quartet, one of our features musical guests on the 15th, performing the music of Tania León ]

SAVE THE DATE: April 14th & 15th
CAN YOU IMAGINE? A Celebration of Tania León

Check out the link in bio to register for this ONLINE EVENT - it’s FREE!
[ photo: performance of Scourge of Hyacinths ]

SAVE THE DATE: Can You Imagine? Tania León Symposium on April 14th and 15th - https://mailchi.mp/a25535a6fa22/fallspeakerseries2021-6797889

DID YOU MISS OUR LAST SPEAKER SERIES EVENT? Fear not! A Transpacific History of American Music with Nancy Rao & our past events from this year are on our Vimeo page. Link in bio to get your LEARN ON!